Therapeutic efficacy of chloroquine and sequence variation in pfcrt gene among patients with falciparum malaria in central India

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-40

  Bharti, Praveen Kumar ^a   Alam, Mohammad Tauqeer ^b   Boxer, Robert ^c   Shukla, Man Mohan ^d   Gautam, Sant P ^e   Sharma, Yagya D ^b   Singh, Neeru ^a,d  

^a Regional Medical Research Centre for Tribals   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d National Institute for Malaria Research Field Station   (India)

^e Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyala ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Central India; CQ; Mutant; Pfcrt gene; Resistance; Wild type

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR; MEFLOQUINE; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

ANTIBODY; BLOOD; CHILD HEALTH; DNA; GENE; GENOTYPE; MALARIA; PARASITOLOGY; PROTOZOAN; SAMPLING; WILD POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CODON; DNA EXTRACTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EXON; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INDIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MUTANT; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SCHOOL CHILD; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TREATMENT FAILURE; YOUNG ADULT;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 72349094323     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2009.02425.x     Document Type: Article

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